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WILY'L-IAM BARTON, OFTROY, NEW-YORK.

Letters 'Patent No. 74,975, dated .March 3, 1868.

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Be it kno :vn 'that I, WILL IAM BARTON, of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Slat-Matting; and I do hereby declarethat the following is arifull, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in therart to make end-use the same, reference'being hadjto the. accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- AFigure 1-represcnts a vertical transverse section of lmy improved Slat-matting.

Figure 2 isa plan or top view of the same.

Similar letters o f reference indicate corresponding parts.

` This invention relates to a new'manner of constrncting'slat-matting for railroad-cars, boat-cabins. and other purposes.. r

The invention consists in connecting n series 1of parallel slats, and the intervening buttons by which are held, the required distance apart, by meanslof ropes or other -iexible material. l

The object ofthe invention is toconstruct o flexible-matting lwhich can be placed' upon uneven, convex, or other floors, and which will .easily adapt itself to all inequalities of theoor, while it will, at the saine time, be suciently strongand still. I

A, in the drawing, represents alseries of slats, made of woodV or other suitable material, and arranged pdrallel to each other. They are held the required distance apart by means of perforated buttons B B, of the requisite width and shape, `and all parte are. connected with each other bymeans of ropes, chains, straps, or I other suitable llexible material, C, which may be of one continuous piece for a whole malt, or separate for each set of buttons, as isindicated in fig. 2.

I am aware that matting has been already made of slats, intervening buttons, and stiff rods, which pass' through the slats and buttons, but such-mats are no't adaptable to the generality ot' -floors, a yielding, ile-xible mat being what is required. i v V A Y I I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent- Connecting the slats and buttons, p'hich form a Slat-mat, by means of ropes or other lexible material, which passes through the slats and buttons', substantiallyhs and for the purpose herein shown and described.

WILLIAM BARTON.

Witnesses:

JOHN L. FLAGG, J. G; RUNKLE. 

